“Not responding is a response--we are equally responsible for what we don t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.”
“Few is the number of those who think with their own mind and feel with their own heart.”
“It s hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else s.”
“I m convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.”
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“You’ve got a lot of responsibility now,” Jace said to Julian. “You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her.” Julian was strangely white-faced. Maybe he was feeling the effects of the ceremony, Emma thought. It had been strong magic; she still felt it sizzling through her blood like champagne bubbles. But Jules looked as if he’d been slapped. “What about me?” Emma said, quickly. “Don’t I have to make sure Jules winds up with someone who deserves him?” “Absolutely. I did it for Alec, Alec did it for me — well, actually, he hated Clary at first, but he came around.” “I BET you didn’t like Magnus much, either,” said Julian, still with the same odd, stiff look on his face. “Maybe not,” said Jace, “but I never would have said so.” “Because it would have hurt Alec’s feelings?” Emma asked. “No,” said Jace, “because Magnus would have turned me into a hat rack.”
“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.”
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ”
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”
“Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.”
“The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.”
“Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.”
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one s acts.”